What to Know
Just about six months after Emilie Kiser tragically lost her son Trigg in a drowning incident, someone commented on one of her posts to tell her that they miss the “family vibe” of her older content. The drowning incident occurred on May 12, when Emilie and her husband Brady’s son Trigg was just three years old. After his death, the influencer took a break from social media for several months.
Understandably, the tragic loss also made her think about the content she chooses to share online. As she grieves, she is only sharing a “very small portion” of her life on social media and is choosing to address certain things in “therapy sessions and with professionals and with [her] family.”
This makes a lot of sense, but someone still decided to comment on how her content has changed after her son’s death. “Love u, your videos and everything, but I really miss the family vibe like before,” they commented on one of Emilie’s posts. “No pushing or something, it’s just my feeling!”
Emilie responded to the comment.
Responding to the comment directly, she wrote, “I understand that! I’m not sharing my children anymore therefore, I’m keeping a lot of my family life private, mom life, etc. And not surrounding my content around it anymore.” She continued with, “That doesn’t mean that I will never share family stuff, but it just won’t be the core of my videos. Hope you can understand.”
After losing her son Trigg, Emilie shared a statement via social media. In it, she explained that her approach to creating content for social media would inevitably change in the future. “I now have seen through this tragedy how relationships online lack boundaries, especially in protecting children’s privacy,” she wrote. “Moving forward, I will be establishing more boundaries with what I share online.”
When she returned to social media, she wanted to remind them that they “are not seeing the full scope of things,” especially given that some people questioned how she was able to return to social media so soon. “For people to say, ‘If this were me, I would just be crippled, and I would be thinking about them all day, and I wouldn’t be able to continue on,’ do you not think that everywhere I look in my house, I don’t see my child?'” she said in a video. “…But I’m not showing that on camera. I’m not showing you all those things.”
People said Emilie was actually “being way too gracious.”
On Reddit, people were generally horrified by the comment about the lack of “family vibes” on Emilie’s social pages. “This random person is ‘Missing the family vibe’???” someone responded. “Maybe because they are missing a family member. What an insensitive comment to leave for Emilie.” They noted that Emilie’s response was actually “so graceful and tactful” given how “insensitive” and “ignorant” the comment seemed.
“She’s being way too gracious,” someone else wrote. “Also I prefer her content now that she is more protective of [her son] Teddy and showcases just her interests and hobbies.”
It makes sense that Emilie’s content has changed — and the shift has also made other moms rethink their relationship with social media too. “I think for her, and a lot of us mothers… this whole situation has put a lot in perspective in terms of how much we show our family/children online,” one person commented. “I think this was a wake up call for not just me but A LOT of moms out there who were maybe previously comfortable showing their kids online, and now they are not.”
